Three Charged For Comcast Security Breach Last Year

Three hackers have been charged by federal indictment over their alleged involvement in infiltrating the security of Comcast.net and subsequently redirecting the visitors of the website to web pages under their control a year back.

The hacker gang, called “Kryogeniks”, modified the DNS records and is estimated to have inflicted monetary damages worth $128,000.

The FBI identified Christopher Allen Lewis, 19, from Newark, Robert Black Jr., 20, from Tumwater, and Michael Paul Nebel, 27, from Kalamazoo, as the members of the cyber-gang in question that attacked the website on 28 May, 2008.

The indictment further noted that the accused hackers simply continued to modify the company’s DNS records even after its employees tried to bring back the situation to normalcy.

According to the indictment, the hackers seized control over the company’s DNS records with the help of a couple of phone calls and an email sent to Comcast’s domain registrar, Network Solutions, using a compromised Comcast email account.

If proved guilty, the hackers would face prison term of up to five years, along with financial penalties of around $250,000 each, and $100 special evaluation, as well as three years of monitored release after the imprisonment.